Category Archives: Travel

Roughly two weeks ago, I found myself feeling completely over winter. It was quite timely, then, that I had scheduled within a few days of this feeling an escape to warmer waters.

I’m in Oahu, Hawaii, an island I’ve been to several times already and adore like a second home. If you’ve never been, I highly recommend it because of the people, the food, and of course, the beaches. It’s an eleven-hour flight for me, which sounds horrendous, especially to go somewhere within the United States, but to me it’s worth it. Hawaii has a totally different vibe from the mainland United States — much more relaxed, friendly, and filled with that famous aloha spirit.

My top 10 things to do in Oahu are:

Drink: fresh coconut water from road stands on the North Shore

Play: in Lanikai beach, probably one of the prettiest beaches I’ve been to

I just made it back from a 10 day trip to Ireland for the holidays, and man, what a beautiful country!

I anticipated drinking lots of Guinness and Jameson (check and check), nursing a 10-day hangover (crisis avoided), and seeing the seriously stunning countryside, but what I didn’t anticipate was how absolutely gorgeous and plentiful Ireland’s street art is!

Dublin and Galway are filled with beautiful pieces of wall and door art, and here are just a few of my favorites:

Dublin:

A parrot’s life for me! Layered bell sleeve blouse from Shein, Leather pants from H&M, Velvet booties from DSWSee the stars in her eyes.

Galway:

Gotta love a bit of grunge. Coat by BB Dakota, Blouse thrifted from Housing Works, Boots from River Island (on sale for 12 euro!)Shark week.Beeeee happy!The world is more colorful than you know.

Hope this explosion of colors brightened your day a bit like it brightened my whole week! Many thanks to the talented artists who put so much effort into making city streets more colorful; it’s so easy to get bogged down but the sometimes gray and dreary city lifestyle (especially on rainy days like today), but street art serves to make those days so much brighter.

As a result of this trip, two of my New Year’s resolutions are to seek out more color, and go exploring for the hell of it. On the latter point, I take New York City life for granted and have never gone wall art hunting before… however, I know there’s loads to see here. Thanks to the inspiring street art of Ireland, I’m going to try a little harder to make this giant city a home.

Happy New Year, friends ❤

If you know any of the above artists, please let me know so that I can give them due credit!

Dare to Who?

Hi there! I'm Dax -- a mathematician, fashionista, puppy enthusiast, and friend. I started this endeavor for 3 reasons: to encourage others to live (and dress) outside the box, to add some color to the predominantly white fashion landscape, and to be my best self.

Never apologize for being yourself -- everyone should dare to be their best self! That's why I'm here, daring to Dax. I hope you'll dare with me.